ANOTHER ITALIAN BISHOP ATTACKED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 14

ANOTHER ITALIAN BISHOP ATTACKED.

■ l'ho Komo correspondent of tho 1 "Tablet," iivnting,on.Novembor-7/.statos:: After tho dissgraceitil; attack,on.'Jlgii-: Boggiano,; Bishop of ?Adra;; which '- resulted m - the placing -. of 1 that ; town-under an .interdict, the city.' of- Asti hot >Biven, another exhibition of tho decay of tho ■Bpirit- of iurbanity'and'toleration;--which is be-: rcoming so noted:in various.parts of Jtalv. Last j'iliß#.i;Bish6p'-:6t' tno:se«, '.was making Jus - solemn entrance to [.-the. io«ii|';ho>was set,upon bv a mob of roughs . tho .Tiolenco . of i.whom ho was- saved only [yWith, great, difficulty by tho, Catholics who surfs rounded • him. ■ ■ Mgr. Spandre lias received' tho fi-following-letter ,from Cardinal Merry del Val, [ who writes in-tho narao of tho Iloly I'ather: b"The, news of-, thov doplorablo incidents- which L-occurred i oil ■ tlio' occasion of tho entrance; of i- yonr. lordship into yonr episcopal see of Asti tvhas . given; keen, and- deep pain to tho august fc heart. of - hia- Holiness,; who, however, has been [ consoled to learn of the calmness and presence t: of ,amd -.inth which you boro that i dcradnstrak tion,. hostilo and 1 offensive not - only • to: yourfcMf Ibufcvto:the pious.'and': distinguished,-persons I [■"ivnd.-.fonncd - tho cortege: which - accompanied F. yoit, to your episcopal iresidenco,' and- whom the L Lord in His, divine, mercy - and compassion at [vonce comforted and sonsoled by. the demonstra-1 fctions of filial, love ;and- warm support - which ['••you haVo received from -the .larger .and better I [;;|)art-;of.-the .people:of iyonr town" ' Incidonla I tvJjke that which hare happened to the Bishop f-of Asti of a plan organised I . the .•anti-Clericals 'to -render impossible all | [,- public, demonstrations of a religions or semi|i religions character.